Reformedville

Yes, you will disagree. Whatever.

So ,  President George Bush finally musters up the courage of his veto pen, just in time to get tough on kids. SCHIP.  This is like pushing people to Hillary by design.  “Mr. Compassionate Conservative.”  My two votes for him still haunts me, but what choices were there…really?

Well, then again, we are just going to be sending them off to war anyway, so maybe this is what a long term fiscal plan is. Save on keeping them healthy because they are dead meat anyway.

Contact your Congress person and tell them draft another version and pass it through. No, I am not for universal health care or social medicine or Hiollary care. But dont be blind, we have social medicine now for those call Medicaid.

. Epidemics spread through children. I would support keeping children healthy, its not their fault if they are poor. SCHIP before foreign aide to anyone 110th Congress. 

109th Congress

1. July 19, 2006: Vetoed H.R. 810, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Override attempt failed in House, 235-193 (286 needed).

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2. May 1, 2007: Vetoed H.R. 1591, U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007. Override attempt failed in House, 222-203 (284 needed). A later version of the bill that excluded certain aspects of the initial legislation that the President disapproved of, H.R. 2206, was enacted as Pub.L. 110-28 with the President’s approval.

3. June 20, 2007: Vetoed S. 5, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007.

4. October 3, 2007: Vetoed H.R. 976, Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007. Override attempt failed in house, 273-156 (286 votes needed.)

In 2007, researchers from Brigham Young University and Arizona State found that children who drop out of SCHIP cost states more money because they shift away from routine care to more frequent emergency care situations.The conclusion of the study is that an attempt to cut the costs of a state program could create a false savings because other government organizations pick up the tab for the children who leave SCHIP and later need care. In a 2007 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, researchers determined that “for every 100 children who gain coverage as a result of SCHIP, there is a corresponding reduction in private coverage of between 25 and 50 children.” The CBO speculates this is because the state programs offer better benefits and lower cost than the private alternatives. A Cato Institute briefing paper estimated the “crowding out” of private insurers by the public program could be as much as 60%. The program cost $40 billion federal dollars over 10 years.

Despite SCHIP, the number of uninsured children continues to rise, particularly among families that cannot qualify for SCHIP. An October 2007 study by the Vimo Research Group found that 68.7 percent of newly uninsured children were from families 200 percent above the federal poverty level.